Study of a Compact Device for Water Attenuation Length MeasurementsThis study presents the development and validation of a compact device for measuring the water attenuation length (WAL), utilizing photomultiplier tubes (PMTs), optical fibers, and light-emitting…Junyou Chen, Jilei Xu, Yongbo Huang et al.·Sep 11, 2025SaveLearn
TCT-based monitoring of LGAD radiation hardness for ATLAS-HGTD productionProduction of the High Granularity Timing Detector for the ATLAS experiment at High Luminosity LHC requires over 21000 silicon sensors based on Low Gain Avalanche Diode (LGAD) technology. Their…Iskra Velkovska, Bojan Hiti·Sep 11, 2025SaveLearn
Cryogenic geometric anti-spring vibration isolation systemThe combination of low temperature and low vibration levels is key for ultrasensitive sensing applications such as scanning probe microscopy, large-mass quantum mechanics, and gravitational wave…L. Feenstra, S. Domínguez-Calderón, K. van Oosten et al.·Sep 10, 2025SaveLearn
HitPix3 -- a new HV-CMOS active pixel sensor for ion beam therapyParticle therapy is a well-established clinical treatment of tumors and so far, more than one hundred centers are in operation around the world. High accuracy on position and dose rate in beam…Hui Zhang, Bogdan Topko, Ivan Perić·Sep 10, 2025SaveLearn
Fabrication of thin planar radiopure foils with 82Se for the SuperNEMO DemonstratorThe SuperNEMO Demonstrator, designed to search for double beta decay using enriched 82Se, has been assembled in the Modane Underground Laboratory under the French Alps. Thin foils with radio -…X. Aguerre, A. Barabash, A. Basharina-Freshville et al.·Sep 10, 2025SaveLearn
Euclid: Methodology for derivation of IPC-corrected conversion gain of nonlinear CMOS APSWe introduce a fast method to measure the conversion gain in Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductors (CMOS) Active Pixel Sensors (APS), which accounts for nonlinearity and interpixel capacitance…J. Le Graet, A. Secroun, M. Tourneur-Silvain et al.·Sep 10, 2025SaveLearn
Enhanced water Cherenkov detector for soil moisture detectionThis work evaluates the ability of a water Cherenkov detector to measure thermal neutrons and explores its application to soil-moisture monitoring. We study a NaCl-doped detector and model its…J. Betancourt, C. Sarmiento-Cano, I. Sidelnik et al.·Sep 10, 2025SaveLearn
Uplink Pre-Compensation for Ground-to-Space Optical Communications Using Downlink Tomographic ReconstructionUplink pre-compensation in ground-to-satellite optical links remains a problem, with an appropriate measurement of the wavefront error in the uplink path often not being available. We present a…Alex Frost, Nicolas Maron, Shane Walsh et al.·Sep 10, 2025SaveLearn
Temperature Dependence of Gain and Time Resolution in LGAD DetectorsLow-Gain Avalanche Diodes (LGADs) provide moderate internal gain and time resolutions of a few tens of picoseconds, making them a key technology for ultrafast timing in high-energy physics and…Weiyi Sun, Mengzhao Li, Mei Zhao et al.·Sep 10, 2025SaveLearn
Cepstral Strain Mapping for Small Pixel-Count DetectorsWith the decreasing sizes of integrated-circuit components, the semiconductor industry is in growing need of high-throughput strain mapping techniques that offer high precision and spatial…Harikrishnan KP, Dasol Yoon, Yu-Tsun Shao et al.·Sep 10, 2025SaveLearn
Development of a national thrust test facility for electric propulsion at Robinson Research Institute, New ZealandThe Robinson Research Institute is developing a type of electric propulsion for spacecraft called an applied-field magneto-plasma-dynamic (AF-MPD) thruster. The applied field module of the thruster…Emile Webster, Ben Mallett·Sep 9, 2025SaveLearn
Spatial resolution studies with the BabyIAXO Micromegas prototypeThe spatial resolution of the Micromegas prototype developed for the BabyIAXO experiment was evaluated using a low-energy X-ray beam at the SOLEIL synchrotron facility. BabyIAXO, currently under…A. Quintana, J. Castel, S. Cebrián et al.·Sep 9, 2025SaveLearn
A Generalisable Generative Model for Multi-Detector Calorimeter SimulationCollider experiments, such as those at the Large Hadron Collider, use the Geant4 toolkit to simulate particle-detector interactions with high accuracy. However, these experiments increasingly require…Piyush Raikwar, Anna Zaborowska, Peter McKeown et al.·Sep 9, 2025SaveLearn
Full-scale Microwave SQUID Multiplexer Readout System for Magnetic MicrocalorimetersThe deployment of large cryogenic detector arrays, comprising hundreds to thousands of individual detectors, is highly beneficial for various cutting-edge applications, requiring large statistics,…M. Neidig, T. Muscheid, R. Gartmann et al.·Sep 9, 2025SaveLearn
Design of high-strength, radiopure, electroformed copper-based alloys for rare-event searches: Impact of layer configuration on heat treatmentsState-of-the-art and next-generation rare-event search experiments rely on detector materials with stringent requirements on radiopurity and mechanical performance. Additive-free electroformed copper…D. Spathara, P. Knights, K. Nikolopoulos·Sep 9, 2025SaveLearn
Readout noise of digital frequency multiplexed TES detectors for CUPIDSuperconducting transition-edge sensor (TES) detectors have been the standard in Cosmic Microwave Background experiments for almost two decades and are now being adapted for use in nuclear physics,…Michel Adamič, Joseph Camilleri, Chiara Capelli et al.·Sep 8, 2025SaveLearn
The Integrating Miniature Piggyback for Impulsive Solar Hard X-rays (IMPISH): a spectrometer for the GRIPS-2 balloon campaignThe Integrating Miniature Piggyback for Impulsive Solar Hard X-rays (IMPISH) is a piggyback mission originally designed for the second flight of the Gamma-Ray Imager/Polarimeter for Solar flares…Reed B. Masek, William Setterberg, Dorcas Oseni et al.·Sep 8, 2025SaveLearn
First Production of Skipper-CCD Modules for the DAMIC-M ExperimentThe DAMIC-M experiment will search for sub-GeV dark matter particles with a large array of silicon skipper charge-coupled devices (CCDs) at the Modane Underground Laboratory (LSM) in France. After…H. Lin, M. Traina, S. Paul et al.·Sep 8, 2025SaveLearn
A Compact Two-Dimensional Radiation Detector for Educational ApplicationsRecent advances in low-cost, portable cosmic-ray detectors have broadened citizen-science engagement in particle physics studies. Imaging applications such as muography, however, remain largely…Chiori Matsushita, Mihiro Nukiwa, Aoi Atobe et al.·Sep 8, 2025SaveLearn
Implementation of Prototype Permanent MicroundulatorsWe report the implementation of two types of helical microundulators with a 6 mm period, built from axially magnetized helices fabricated from a single piece of rare-earth magnet. The first device,…Eyal Magory, Vladimir L. Bratman, Ahiya Steiner et al.·Sep 7, 2025SaveLearn
Upgrades of the ATLAS Zero Degree Calorimeter System for Run 3 at the Large Hadron ColliderExperimental studies of ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) depend crucially on Zero Degree Calorimeters (ZDCs) that measure neutrons produced at near-beam…Giulio Avoni, Marco Bruschi, Gianluca Canale et al.·Sep 7, 2025SaveLearn
Site Evaluation and Cost Estimation for Cosmic ExplorerCosmic Explorer (CE) is a proposed next generation gravitational-wave observatory that would be sited in the United States. As of 2025, CE is in its design phase, with plans to begin operations in…Laurence Datrier, Geoffrey Lovelace, Joshua R. Smith et al.·Sep 5, 2025SaveLearn
LEMURS dataset: Large-scale multi-detector ElectroMagnetic Universal Representation of ShowersWe present LEMURS: an extensive dataset of simulated calorimeter showers designed to support the development and benchmarking of fast simulation methods in high-energy physics, most notably providing…Peter McKeown, Piyush Raikwar, Anna Zaborowska·Sep 5, 2025SaveLearn
Preparation and measurement of an 37Ar source for liquid xenon detector calibrationWe present the preparation and measurement of the radioactive isotope 37Ar, which was produced using thermal neutrons from a reactor, as a calibration source for liquid xenon time projection…Xu-Nan Guo, Chang Cai, Fei Gao et al.·Sep 5, 2025SaveLearn
GEMINI: The First Underground Testbed for Seismic Isolation and Interplatform Control in Next-Generation Gravitational-Wave DetectorsGEMINI is an underground research and development facility dedicated to advancing seismic isolation and control technologies for future gravitational-wave observatories, including the Einstein…Tomislav Andric, Jan Harms, Ilaria Caravella et al.·Sep 5, 2025SaveLearn